2013 Annual Conference

1. How's your dog food taste?
Presented by: Learon Dalby
Date: 10/30/2013
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3. Meet Will & Helen
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4. Will built this house… with his own two
hands, and almost no help.
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5. Detail to functionality
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6. Will & Helen
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7. You use your web mapping application?
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8. BE HONEST
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9. Who else uses it?
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10. Does it save time, $, or
solve a problem?
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11.  But I get a whole bunch of hits…
 I serve a whole bunch of tiles…
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12.  But I get a whole bunch of hits…
 I serve a whole bunch of tiles…
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13. http://mapbrief.com/
The Tyranny of “Requirements”
FAST • INTUITIVE • INFORMATIVE • FAST
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14. MapThis.net
 Six Reasons Why the Public Hates Your Web Mapping
Application
 It is slow to load
 It is ugly
 You can’t print from it
 Your data is incomplete and outdated
 It can’t be figured out in five seconds
 It is not mobile friendly
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15.  Do any of the following use your app to solve
a business problem?
 Private Sector
Governor
 Legislator
 Executive
 County Official
 Joe Schmo
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16. @learondalby
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19. @learondalby
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20. Eating your own dog food, also
called dogfooding, is a slang term used to
reference a scenario in which a company
(usually, a computer software company) uses
its own product to demonstrate the quality
and capabilities of the product.
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21.  You use it, it will get better
 Others use it, it will get better
 The RIGHT “others” use it, you will
survive
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22. I may or may not have…
 We use it…
 We know when it’s broke
 We know its shortcomings
 We actively fix issues
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23. Credits
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Slide 2: http://www.buildingsarasota.com/pictures/640_hausbau_stari-lepel.jpg
Slide 3 – 6: http://offbeathome.com/2011/07/hand-built-house-alabama
Slide 12: http://www.alexabsalom.com/wp-content/uploads/so-what-baby.jpg
Slide 13: http://www.hdwallpapers3d.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nascar.jpg
Slide 16: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GwVYEo2QZfk/Te0Jdt0GjVI/AAAAAAAADx0/b6Y6DKGrpYg/s1600/+vicious+circle+.jpg
Slide 19: http://developers.sugarcrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/dog-food.jpg
Slide 19: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
Slide 19: http://developers.sugarcrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/dog-food.jpg
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24. Learon Dalby
Sanborn
ldalby@sanborn.com
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